Congress still has plenty on its “to do” list before the end of 2024, including funding the government, extending or passing a new farm bill and potentially moving some type of ad hoc disaster and ...

With Republicans in control of Congress and Donald Trump back in the White House, many in the GOP see immigrationas a top priority. Focusing on the issue would help them consolidate a wavering House ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - When President-elect Donald Trump's Republicans take control of the U.S. Congress next month, they plan to rely on a maneuver called "reconciliation" to achieve his ...

This year has, unfortunately, provided some excellent illustrations of Congress’s dysfunction. We are currently emerging from a record-long shutdown. Senate Democrats filibustered funding in a doomed ...

The firestorm over President Trump’s alleged executive overreach—and most of the court cases challenging it—could be largely extinguished if a single sentence were added to the soon-to-be-passed ...

The threat of being kept after school if you hadn’t completed your homework was a motivator back in my high school days. Apparently, it doesn’t work on adults in Congress. Senate Majority Leader John ...

Richard Stern is Acting Director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The... The reconciliation process is ...

At a closed-door House Republican retreat Saturday morning, newly re-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said President-elect Donald Trump was in favor of passing a single reconciliation bill ...

The White House sent Congress its 2026 “skinny budget” it says will pump up defense spending and slash non-defense discretionary spending by nearly a quarter. The budget request “guts a weaponized ...

House Republicans are steaming ahead with their megabill containing the bulk of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. As of Tuesday morning, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is hoping to get the ...

The 119th Congress should use the budget reconciliation process to advance 12 education reforms that right-size federal involvement in K–12 and higher education. The reforms include advancing ...